Administrative division ; Electoral district ; Foreign policy ; Local policy ; Political geography ; State control ; United States of America
in geographical perspective (with use of factor analysis) ; and g) political geography of the twenty-first century. - (DWG)
Topics include: a) changing regional responses to political events in American history; b) state and local political geography; c) representation and gerrymandering; d) U.S. and the world; e) post-cold war changes; f) presidential politics
Language, occupation and regionalism as determinants of White political allegiances in South Africa : the 1981 and 1987 general elections
Changing patterns of political support for the ruling National Party in the course of the 1980s are presented. The geographical implications of these changes are examined. - (AJC)
The geographical structure of capitalism at the origin of cultural protest against globalization as expressed in contemporary politics of identity
Capitalism ; Civilization ; Cultural studies ; Far-right ; Hinduism ; Identity ; Islam ; Nationalism ; Policy ; Political party ; Power ; World system
The A. argues that the failure of capitalism to bring about universal prosperity is at the origin of the rise of the politics of identity. It fails to secure decent living conditions for unskilled workers in the core states of Western Europe
, and opportunities for social mobility for the equivalent of the European middle-class in the (semi)peripheral states. An analysis of three cases of politics of identity (islamism, Hindu nationalism and extreme right-wing nationalism in Europe) corroborates this view
Community ; Police ; Political geography ; Subjectivity ; Urban area ; Urban social movement
This paper focuses on the work of Jacques Rancière, his view of politics, and its relevance for understanding key aspects of social protest movements such as the Occupy movement. It outlines some of Rancière’s key concepts, such as the distinction
between politics and the police, subjectivity, ‘in-between spaces’, and ‘insubstantial communities’, and attempts to locate his concept of politics within a wider spectrum of political forms in order to bring out its distinctive nature. It concludes
with a discussion of some of the critical questions concerning the effectiveness of this style of politics (questions of political organisation and engagement with the state) and the wider consequences for Rancière’s concept of radical politics.
[b1] School of Geographical Sciences, Univ., Bristol, Royaume-Uni
This paper builds on previous geographical and social science work at the boundaries of climate change by(re)asserting the significance of the territoriality of the national state in global climate negotiations. Using post-political consensus
as a theoretical framework and drawing upon examples from climate change negotiations like Kyoto and Copenhagen, it argues that it is too premature to fetishize the consensus of, and collectivism between national states in global climate politics. As geographers
, ‘territoriality’, both as a material and discursive device, is fundamental in, and constitutive of, how we interpret and understand climate change and the politics thereof.
Annual political geography lecture sponsored by Elsevier Science and the political geography speciality group of the Association of American Geographers
Conflict ; Criminality ; Geographer's role ; Geography ; Policy ; Political geography ; Practice of geography ; United States of America ; Violence
Conflit ; Criminalité ; Etats-Unis ; Géographie ; Géographie politique ; Politique ; Pratique de la géographie ; Rôle du géographe ; Violence
Quatre articles. 1. Quelle politique pour la géographie américaine : conflits et antagonismes entre géographes, arbitrages excessifs, guerres culturelles (M. Dear). Haine et critique, tant à l'intérieur qu'à l'extérieur de l'académie (J. DeFilippis
The shifting stage of politics: new medieval and postmodern territorialities
Economic integration ; Europe ; European Union ; Federalism ; Nationalism ; Political geography ; Post-modernism ; Sovereignty ; Space time ; State ; Territoriality
The A. argues for new medieval and postmodern conceptualizations of territoriality and sovereignty, which recognize that geographic space is becoming more complex and relative: conventional political concepts based on absolute space are increasingly
problematic for understanding the political complexities of globalization. The A. sketches transformations of sovereignty from medieval to modern, and from modern to postmodern. Contemporary configurations of political space are a complex mixture of new
Beijing ; Centrality ; China ; Perception of the urban environment ; Policy ; Political geography ; Power ; Semiotics of space ; Social practice ; Urban area ; Urban landscape ; Urban morphology
The paper reviews the relevant geographical literature on space, place and politics, then sketches the morphological evolution of the Square and the multiplicity of political meanings concretized in it. It examines the spatial practice of 20th
century oppositional movements focusing on the struggle for the Square in 1989, to demonstrate the extraordinary power of apparently placeless political movements over the production and definition of space.
Active citizenship and local governance: political and geographical dimensions
Citizenship ; Community ; Democracy ; Local policy ; Organization ; Participation ; Political geography ; Social group ; United Kingdom ; Urban district
to participate in local governance, and the institutional structures and arrangements of local governance, have crucial geographical dimensions.
Time and the spatial post-politics of climate change : insights from Australia
Australia ; Climate ; Climatic change ; Ecological footprint ; Governance ; Post-politics ; Temporality ; Theory
This paper examines the post-politics of climate change in Australia and discuss an important but otherwise little remarked temporality. First, we note the spatial structuring of Rancière's post-political theorization as it informs geographical
research on the governance of social and environmental issues. Second, we identify a post-politics in climate change policy developed by the Australian federal government (under Rudd then Gillard) which culminated in 2011 with its carbon pricing proposals
and subsequent clean energy plan. Third, referring to the discursive material associated with these developments, we discuss the critical importance of time in the climate change debate, returning us to comment on the problematic temporality of post-politics
with a word of caution about any re-emergence here of the political.
The new political economy of geographical intelligence
Army ; Economy ; Forecast ; Geographical information system ; Knowledge ; Location ; Political economy ; Private sector ; Spatial analysis ; Sub-contracting ; United States of America
This article first describes the geography intelligence “contracting nexus” consisting of tens of thousands of companies (including those in the geographical information systems and mapping sector), universities and nonprofits receiving Department
of Defense and intelligence agency funding. Second, it discusses the “knowledge nexus” to conceptualize how geographical knowledge figures in current U.S. intelligence efforts, themselves part of the U.S. war on terror and counterinsurgency. It notes a shift
from an emphasis on areal and cultural expertise to a focus on calculative predictive spatial analysis in geographical intelligence.
Les géographes, l'action et la politique. in Les géographes, l'action et la politique. (Géographers, action and politics)
Ecole française ; Ecole géographique ; Epistémologie ; Ghum ; Généralités sur la géographie ; Géographie ; Géographie politique ; Hérodote ; Revue géographique ; Rôle du géographe ; Vie politique
géographes au sein de la nation. Les articles rassemblés dans ce numéro apportent donc une réponse à cette question.
American school ; Concept ; Epistemology ; Political geography
Treize contributions issues de la conférence annuelle de l'Association des Géographes Américains tenue à Los Angeles en 2002. Problèmes théoriques en géographie politique. Discussions sur les sujets politiques en relation avec le reste de la